Robert Westall

The Guardian award-winning novel about courage, friendship and war.When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry''s home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live with his fussy Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the war-battered land of North East England, his only friend in his journey a stray dog that he meets on the beach. Will Harry ever find a place to call home again, or will he be on the run forever?

Celebrate 50 years of adventure as Chas McGill and friends turn war trophies into perilous games, in Robert Westall''s acclaimed classic and a Carnegie Medal winner, The Machine Gunners. Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth but wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the wreckage of a downed German bomber, he finds the ultimate trophy – a working machine gun.Hiding his discovery from the local police, Chas recruits his friends and together they build a fortress for their prize. But war is not a game and soon both friendships and loyalties are tested when the gang''s actions have dangerous consequences.Robert Westall wrote The Machine Gunners for his son, Christopher, based on his own experiences during the Second World War. A modern classic of children''s fiction, it went on to win the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 1975 and has been in print ever since.With a new refreshed cover for the 50th anniversary.

Blitzcat by Robert Westall is the Smarties Prize-winning book about one brave cat's experiences during World War Two. Now with a brilliant refreshed cover look. She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety, out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went, she changed lives . . . From her beginning to her end she never wavered. She was the Blitzcat.

Pokračovanie strašidelných poviedok (1. časť vyšla pod názvom Tiene démonov) od anglického spisovateľa, majstra rozprávačského umenia. Za svoju tvorbu dostal dva razy ocenenie Carnegie Medal. Do deja každej z piatich poviedok zasahuje niekto alebo niečo „z onoho sveta“. Ako napr. záhadná bytosť, čo nedáva spať celému mestečku, lebo v noci čarbe hanebné nápisy na hrobky v kostole. A rozuzlenie tejto poviedky je až neuveriteľné.